提出新型非保守规划方法,让吊挂无人机更安全快速穿越复杂环境。
PolyFly: Polytopic Optimal Planning for Collision-Free Cable-Suspended Aerial Payload Transportation
- 将飞行器、缆绳和载荷建模为独立多面体,实现精确碰撞检测。
- 在8个迷宫式环境中均比现有方法更快完成路径规划。
- 支持真实无人机实验,验证了方法的可靠性与实用性。
使用悬挂缆绳的空中运输机器人已成为灾难救援中的多功能平台。为充分发挥系统能力,机器人需在密集森林或结构不稳建筑等狭窄环境中高速飞行,同时缩短飞行时间并避障。现有方法对飞行器和障碍物进行几何过估计,导致动作保守、飞行时间增加。本文提出PolyFly,一种全局最优规划方法,通过将环境与机器人(四旋翼、缆绳、载荷)各部件分别建模为独立多面体,实现非保守表示。进一步通过构建姿态感知多面体提升模型精度。利用对偶理论将多面体约束转化为光滑可微约束,高效求解最优控制问题。在8个迷宫状环境中对比当前最先进方法,结果表明PolyFly在所有场景中生成更快速轨迹。此外,在真实四旋翼悬吊载荷平台上实验验证了该方法的实用性和准确性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Aerial transportation robots using suspended cables have emerged as versatile platforms for disaster response and rescue operations. To maximize the capabilities of these systems, robots need to aggressively fly through tightly constrained environments, such as dense forests and structurally unsafe buildings, while minimizing flight time and avoiding obstacles. Existing methods geometrically over-approximate the vehicle and obstacles, leading to conservative maneuvers and increased flight times. We eliminate these restrictions by proposing PolyFly, an optimal global planner which considers a non-conservative representation for aerial transportation by modeling each physical component of the environment, and the robot (quadrotor, cable and payload), as independent polytopes. We further increase the model accuracy by incorporating the attitude of the physical components by constructing orientation-aware polytopes. The resulting optimal control problem is efficiently solved by converting the polytope constraints into smooth differentiable constraints via duality theory. We compare our method against the existing state-of-the-art approach in eight maze-like environments and show that PolyFly produces faster trajectories in each scenario. We also experimentally validate our proposed approach on a real quadrotor with a suspended payload, demonstrating the practical reliability and accuracy of our method.
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